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The Value Of The Journey
The three things that add value to our lives are:
- Pursuing goals of value(the effort).
- Achieving valuable goals(the achievement).
- Being in a state of value.
Hours of practice and effort leads to achievement and a transformation to a particular state. Knowledge, if earned, feels deserving and adds a sense of accomplishment.
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Becoming A Different Person
Insertion of knowledge has another potential problem: unpredictable changes in behaviour, personality or character.
The person who has had new knowledge inserted in the brain may become a completely different person who can feel alien to us.
We should tread with caut...
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The Twelve Years Spent At School
School time was an anxiety-filled period for most, if not all, of us.
Yet, school time is considered crucial for imparting education in children, and parents spend a lot of time, money and effort ensuring their kids are completing school and college.
What if all the knowledge...
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Inserting Knowledge In The Brain
The thought experiment of being able to insert knowledge and other desirable states instantly in the brain raises some interesting questions and caveats.
- Uploading knowledge inside the brain frees up thousands of hours, otherwise required for the slow, conventional learning process.
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Pedagogical Relationships
Insertion of knowledge robs one of the connections and relationships that are formed with teachers, mentors, parents and school mates, which have their own intrinsic value.
The time spent in school has various emotional, intuitive, imaginative, attentive, responsive aspects apart from a mer...
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Diminishing The Value Of Success
One can diminish the value of an achievement so that non-accomplishment isn’t a big issue.
One also falls into a self-fulfilling prophecy, that if one isn’t interested in doing a task, that task must not be interesting or important enough in the first place. This leads us...
Positive effect of goal-setting on mental health
- Lack of goals leads to indecision, lack of focus, feelings of leading a dull existence, and symptoms of depressions among other mental health struggles.
- Specific-written goals offer a sense of purpose, meaning, existential structure, and a clear direction to strive for a specific vis...
Increasing the subjective value of a project
Attach the work you have to do to your self-concept.
We generally want to keep a positive self-concept, so goals connected closely to our sense of self or identity take on much more value.
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